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The beaver enclosure is, of course, designed to keep the beavers within it, as the Welsh government is not yet ready to see Steve and Doris roaming freely, as their distant ancestors would have done before we killed them off some 400 years ago.  The wire fence will stop most things bigger than a water vole or mole coming in or out.  The grids on the water inlets (three of them) and outlet (one) will allow something a little bigger to pass through, as the bars are welded at 10

This blog post was written by Jess, who heads up our horticultural efforts (as well help with lots of other stuff!) Things are moving...

Well, it’s exactly 3 months since Steve and Doris first arrived at Cefn Garthenor at the end of April.  They were released separately as...

Our first bee hive arrived a few weeks ago and as it turns out we have Game of Thrones on steroids on our, admittedly gloved, hands

After much waiting on health screening results, B day finally arrived.  And along with it a hopefully budding romance. Doris just after...

Aspen are very beautiful, not only to look at but also to hear.  They are commonly known as quaking aspen as the leaves are very flexible...

What a weekend the 7th and 8th of December was.  I’m sure that many had it worse.  Mid Wales was certainly party central of bad boy...

One of the problems with camera traps is that you just get so much footage. And it takes a long time to go through, and then, for me at...

After the jubilation of finally getting the licence for the beaver enclosure came the realisation that there was a fair bit of work...

We are now 3 months into Cefn Garthenor’s new, and very exciting project… A new Native Tree Nursery!   It’s probably time for me to...

It's blag a blog month, where I shamelessly post somebody else's work. I've pinched an article by Rob Parry about the project, written...

Some things come back every year … the swallows are the most obvious ones for me as I get a dawn wake up call, currently at around...

A bit of exciting news from Cefn Garthenor which comes after a long and somewhat tortuous journey.  Last month I received a licence,...

Spring has less sprung than squelched its way into Cefn Garthenor this year.  It’s been a warm and wet winter, and the rain has just kept...

Many changes at Cefn Garthenor over the last couple of years are hard to see, even if they are important.  For example, we had water...

As both regular readers will know (actually Mum, you’re not reading twice, are you?), it is almost two years since I got the first of the...

I told a lot of people that I was planting 400 trees over Christmas.  That was a lie on a number of counts.  Firstly, it turns out there...

It is all too easy to think of this time of year as one of death and decay in nature.  The leaves have fallen and not so much seems to be...

At the top of Cefn Garthenor’s land there are a good number of semi-improved fields making up around 20% of the area. These are the...

Farmers may wish to switch off here. For those of you who are less familiar the rules and regulations surrounding British agriculture...